From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU  Wed May 19 16:41:27 1993
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 15:39-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President Names Fish & Wildlife Officials  5.18.93

                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

                                                                  
For Immediate Release                             May 18, 1993

           PRESIDENT NAMES FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICIALS

(Washington, DC)    President Clinton announced today his 
intention to nominate Molly H. Beattie, the director of a Vermont 
public policy center and former state natural resources official, 
to be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  In 
addition, the President announced that his longtime environmental 
aide Kenneth Smith has been appointed the Fish and Wildlife 
Service's Deputy Director.

     "Secretary Babbitt and I have placed a high priority on 
finding new ways to protect biological diversity without 
endangering economic growth," said the President.  "The Fish and 
Wildlife Service will play a big role in that process.   I have 
full confidence in the ability of Molly Beattie and Ken Smith to 
do the hard work and the fresh thinking that needs to be done."

     Molly Beattie has been Executive Director of the Richard A. 
Snelling Center for Government since its inception in 1991.  She 
had previously been Deputy Secretary of the State of Vermont's 
Agency of Natural Resources, with particular responsibility for 
forestry, fish, wildlife, and public lands.  Beattie also served 
from 1985-89 as Vermont's Commissioner of Forests, Parks and 
Recreation, and from 1983-85 as Program Director for the Windham 
Foundation, a private foundation which conducts seminars on 
issues facing Vermont and which manages more than 1,000 acres of 
land.  She has additional experience as a forester, an Outward 
Bound instructor, and a news reporter.  She holds a bachelors 
degree from Marymount College, a masters in Forestry from the 
University of Vermont, and a masters in public administration 
from the Kennedy School of Government.

     Kenneth Smith was a Special Assistant to then-Governor Bill 
Clinton from 1989 until Clinton resigned that office in 1992.  He 
advised Clinton on a variety of environmental issues and 
coordinated the actions of Arkansas' natural resource agencies, 
as well as working with federal agencies including the Fish and 
Wildlife Service.  Smith had previously been Chief of Research 
for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, Program Coordinator 
for The Nature Conservancy, and   a science teacher in the 
Jonesboro public schools.  He holds a B.S. from Southern Arkansas 
University and an M.S. from Arkansas State University.

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